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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Typical Bush." 

 FIGUEE 30. 



Nowhere in the Chatham Islands is the forest of any great height ; 

 25 feet would be a good average height, with a maximum height of 

 40 feet to 45 feet in some parts of the lowland district between the 

 great Lagoon and Lake Huro., 



The forest is made up chiefly of the following trees :-^CorynocarpuS' 

 laevigatus (Karaka), Pseudopanax chatamicum, Hymenanthem chata- 

 mica, Myrsine (Suttonia) chatamica, Veronica gigantea, Drcbcophyllum 

 arhoreum, Olearia Tmversii, Tree ferns, Cyathea dealhata, C. medularis, 

 C. Cunninghamii, Dichsonia fibrosa (antarctica), D. squarrosa, the 

 liane, Ripogonum scandens, and in places the palm Rhaphalostylis 

 sapida, with Senecio Huntii scattered here and there. 



Senecio Huntii. 

 FIGURES 31 AND 32. 



Senecio Huntii is a shrub or small round-headed tree 6 feet to 20 

 feet high, usually more or less glandular-pubescent and viscid in all 

 its parts. It is found chiefly on the higher ground, where there is 

 plenty of moisture, but not on the bogs. The branchlets are marked 

 with the scars of the fallen leaves ; leaves crowded 2 inches to 4 inches 

 long, usually glabrous above and clothed with a thin fulvous tomentum 

 beneath. Mowers in a terminal panicle, large, dense and much 

 branched, from 3 inches to 5 inches broad, bright yellow. The plants 

 are more or less scattered about the " bush," and seldom found in a 

 compact mass; it is closely allied to yS. Stewartim, found on Hereko- 

 pere Islands, in Foveaux Strait, and on the Snares Islands. 



